Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-04

spondent of the Daily Telegraph says
1.-The situation of France with respect to
Germany is fast becoming so critical that
some heroic method of cure must. at all
hazards, be attempted The officials and
official papers Of Berlin now begin to cry
out that Boulanger is perpetual source of
danger to Germany, because he personifies
the idea of revenge. Everybody, in what
ever station of life, desires nothing so
much as peace, and Boulanger will do all
in his power to avert war with Germany.
l hear the military party in Berlin are re-
ally apprehensive of coup being at
tempted by Boulanger, but if the
French War Minister is feared it is because
he is known to be the best administrator
we have had since the Republic has been
established, and we can't dismiss man
from his post because he has done his work
better than his predecessors. There is only
one way left of dispelling the clouds which
have gathered so thickly on the horizon.
Prince Bismarck has asserted that he will
never attack France. Ii is the duty of
France to make a similar declaration, in
the strongest official form. | am told on.
excellent authority that the question of do
ing so has been more thai once mooted in
Cabinel councils, but NJ. Goblet has always
refused, on the ground that it would be a
bad precedent to reply to newspaper re-
ports"
Another Panic Predicted.
New YORK, February 3d.-The Times
special from London dated the ID inst
says: Although the scare yesterday was
the worst since the rumors began to circu-
late, it is not comparable, probably, with
the panic in store for next week when the
Germ an reserves IN the seven western divi-
sions, numbering 1000 mep, will join
their coloIs. 1t was not generally known
that the movement was so imminent and
it is believed it will create an excita5le
impression on France. Despite all pacific
assurances from Paris, got statement
confirming Saturdays report that arms,
men and munitions of war are teing
showed eastward. This renders more SUBJ
stauual the floating suspicious that Boul-
anger is getting ready the coup of his own.
The belief in war las become such a un-
yersal thing that one of the evening papers
has an editorial saying that there will be
peace, and everybody talks about the article
as singular thing. Paris, now for the
first time, really believes that war is
inevitable, and private letters from Berlin
and Hanover report general preparations
among the officers to provide for the safety
of their families early IN the spring.
Engiand's War Preparations.
New York, February 3d.-A private
London cable states that Englands extern
sive war preparations are made more with
a view of protecting India next spring than
the expectation of European hostihties.
The Afghanistan revolt is most formidable,
and will assume renewed vigor on the open
ing of spring. Russia is closely watching
events, having the gunboat Anu Daria
and a large force of troops on the Afghan
jstan frontier. The sarcastic allusion of the
st. Petersburg Gazette to Lord Salisbury's
speech, stating that England's foreign
policy was pacific, is regarded as an indica-
ton of trouble for England in India.